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Japanese shares eased on Thursday, with cyclicals and oil companies leading the decline, but they pared losses after a media report that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's stimulus package will be larger than initially expected.
Japanese shares ended lower on Friday, weighed down by uncertainties about outlook of domestic firms, while gains in technology stocks tracking an overnight Nasdaq rally limited losses.
Japanese shares ended higher on Thursday, tracking cues from a Wall Street rally after the U.S. Federal Reserve unveiled plans to trim bond purchases, though a plunge in shipping firm Kawasaki Kisen despite a record quarterly profit capped gains.
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Japanese shares reversed course to end marginally higher on Friday, as optimism around domestic corporate outlook outweighed investors' caution ahead of the country's general election.